Here Lies the Librarian Quotes

“But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.”
― Richard Peck, Here Lies the Librarian

“The Colonel called automobiles “devil wagons” for what they’d done to his business.”
― Richard Peck, Here Lies the Librarian

“You had to give her credit for thinking every minute. I wondered if there wasn't a Library Science course in Scheming.”
― Richard Peck, Here Lies the Librarian

“In her country drives she had killed more chickens than a hotel kitchen.

I had never been in a crowd this big. I felt like a grain of wheat in a box of rat droppings.

“To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who will achieve this greatness will be women.”

About the best we could do was keep our heads down and our hopes small.

I saw that it took a lady to show a boy how to be a gentleman.

There wasn't a cloud in the summer sky and the corn was knee-high by the Fourth of July. It was like first morning of Creation.

Pride strengthens a woman, but weakens a man.”
― Richard Peck, Here Lies the Librarian